West Stokes High School

Located at 1400 Priddy Road, in King, North Carolina, West Stokes High School is a reasonably sized senior high that educates 799 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Stokes County Schools.

Stokes County Schools runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 5,758 students. West Stokes High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, West Stokes High School lists that nearly all students (86%) are White. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Stokes County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, West Stokes High School logs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Stokes County's rate of about 82%.

With demographic context factored in, West Stokes High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.2%, the actual is 59.4%, a residual of -5.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Stokes County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,969 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Stokes County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,758 students), of which West Stokes High School is one.

Mount Olive Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, West Stokes High School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Stokes High School has contracted 10%, going from 887 students in 2018 to 799 in 2025.

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